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By now you probably know that the emoji you send on an iPhone might not be the emoji that is received on a Nexus. Since emoji are designed differently across platforms, sometimes your text messages might get lost in translation. But how differently might your well-intentioned emoji be displayed?

Making handmade goods might be the easy part when you consider all the work that goes into selling those products online. Now Etsy is giving its sellers a new tool for building a standalone website that easily populates with data from Etsy's own online marketplace, making launching and maintaining an e-commerce site a whole lot easier.

For most people in 2015, "one device that can do it all" is a tablet that also has a keyboard. For interaction designers at MIT, it means a shape-shifting soft robot that switches from phone, to watch, to flashlight, to charging cable.

Many drivers think that it's safer to use a voice-controlled assistant like Cortana or Siri while driving, instead of directly interacting with my phone. But a pair of new studies about voice-controlled assistants and in-car hands-free systems are still "very distracting, very error prone and very frustrating to use."

An iPad case that waves almost imperceptibly when you get an email. Screens that curl up when you leave a room, and ones that unfurl like flowers when you come back. These sound like William Gibson-esque technologies from the future, but they're actually not so far off.

Filmmakers have invented fanciful spaceship technology for more than a hundred years. But for The Martian, director Ridley Scott went the opposite direction: He asked actual space explorers to help them imagine the technology of the near future.

Unfortunately for us, we'll no longer be able to publish exhaustive lists of the ugliest US government websites. But fortunately for the American people, any url ending in .gov is going to look and function better than it ever has before, thanks to new government-wide standards.

One day, astronauts on deep space missions may explore the surface of unknown planets remotely — using a rover while they remain in orbit. That concept, though it sounds radically far-off, just got an important dry run.

You've got to hand it to Huawei. Just a week out from Apple's iPhone 6S launch, it's revealed the Mate S, which has almost certainly stolen a bit of the Apple phone's thunder by including its iOS rival's expected lead feature.

Google debuted a serif-free logo today — the first real change to its logo since 1999. And although it's much prettier than the 16-year-old wordmark, the company claimed it was more about functionality than looks. The Google logo has become more and more problematic throughout its existence, and it had everything to do with those serifs.

It feels like a wave of pressure-sensitive tactile interfaces has been about to crest for years. But a pair of engineers believe they have built the hardware and software that could delivers on that promise — and they have funded the first round of production in just a couple of hours.

Could Amazon actually win the race to build the most widely-used AI voice platform? As unlikely as it sounds, Amazon is pushing far harder than Microsoft or Apple to get its technology into the hands of other companies.

Swipe, swipe, swipe. Hundreds of swipes every day on Tinder. I'm lonely, OK?! It turns out I'm not just desperate for love though. Tinder might be tapping into human psychology. Are we hardwired to swipe right?

One of my favourite things about watching movies is seeing the film's vision of the user interfaces on screens and computers. They're almost always over the top (like they were in the first Avengers) but I love to imagine that we'll see all those exploded graphics in our future and pretend that all that information would be intelligible.

You probably didn't think about it sitting in the theatre, but all the technology in Avengers: Age of Ultron was designed by someone in the real world — from Stark's Iron Man schematics to Cho's medical scans. Who are the designers that built this world? Meet Territory Studio.